The Problem of the Color Line: Place, Race, and Access to Health Care in America

Date
02/2022
Journal
Health Affairs
Description

Using ZIP Code Tabulation Area boundaries and associated rural-urban commuting area codes, urban and rural places with the largest share of minoritized racial and ethnic groups were identified. A StoryMap was then created to illustrate disparities experienced based on where Indigenous populations and people of color reside spatially.

Center
Rural and Minority Health Research Center
Authors
Jan Eberth, Gabriel Benavidez, Peiyin Hung, Whitney Zahnd, Melinda Merrell, Janice Probst, Ebony Toussaint, Oyeleye Oyesode, Elizabeth Crouch, Mary-Katherine McNatt, Nicholas Yell